Definition of Old Irish

1. Noun. Irish Gaelic up to about 1100.

Generic synonyms: Irish, Irish Gaelic

Definition of Old Irish

1. Proper noun. The Irish language as attested from the sixth to the tenth centuries A.D. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Irish

Old Father Thames
Old Father Time
Old Frankish
Old French
Old Frisian
Old Georgian
Old Glory
Old Greek
Old Harry
Old Hickory
Old High German
Old IRA
Old Icelandic
Old Ionian
Old Ionic
Old Irish (current term)
Old Ironsides
Old Italian
Old Japanese
Old Javanese
Old Korean
Old Latin
Old Line State
Old London Town
Old Low Franconian
Old Maid
Old Marlburian
Old Master
Old Masters
Old Nick

Literary usage of Old Irish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... and the old Irish race. " It is observed," he says, " That ever since his Highness's Ancestors had this Nation in Possession, the Old Natives have heen ..."

2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"THILO (Rheinisches Museum, Neue Folge, XIV. 132-133) was the first to call attention to the Old-Irish glosses, which are found in the abridgments of ..."

3. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"No clear allusion in very old Irish MSS. to dancing. ... to lyric music in general; Cor, in the plural Cuir, an old Irish word tor music, perhaps connected ..."

4. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"... figures them on the gaunt old " Irish Greyhound pig ; " and N athu- sius states that they occasionally appear in all the long eared Fig. 4. ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The following is a literal translation from the old Irish text:— Christ in the poop, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks to me, The strong virtue of ..."

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